她在向你走来还是渐渐远去？没人能给出确切答案。它就是荷兰艺术大师约翰内斯·维米尔的《戴珍珠耳环的少女》中的主角，这幅画常被成为“荷兰的蒙娜丽莎”。但究竟是什么使这幅画如此摄人心魄？
Is she turning towards you or away from you?
No one can agree.
She's the mysterious subject of Dutch master Johannes Vermeer's "Girl with the Pearl Earring," a painting often referred to as the 'Mona Lisa of the North.'
Belonging to a Dutch style of idealized, sometimes overly expressive paintings known as tronies, the "Girl with the Pearl Earring" has the allure and subtlety characteristic of Vermeer's work.
But this painting stands apart from the quiet narrative scenes that we observe from afar in many of Vermeer's paintings.
A girl reading a letter. A piano lesson. A portrait artist at work.
These paintings give us a sense of intimacy while retaining their distance, a drawn curtain often emphasizes the separation.
We can witness a milkmaid serenely pouring a bowl of milk, but that milk isn't for us.
We're only onlookers.
The studied composition in Vermeer's paintings invokes a balanced harmony.
